Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot